Leeann Akers

The Rowan County softball team is preparing to open the 2019 season. WMKY's Leeann Akers has the story...

Rowan County's baseball team is preparing for the 2019 season. WMKY's Leeann Akers has the story...

March 1, 2, 8 & 9th at 7:30pm; March 3rd and 10th at 2:00pm, Rowan County Arts Center Tickets Available Now on this website, ​by calling the RCAC at 606-783-9857, or at the door!

Catch us in the act as we present Deborah Zoe-Laufer's award-winning, provocative dark comedy that pits science, religion and suburbia against one another - and treats them all with compassion, humor and heartbreak. MATURE themes. Not recommended for children 12 and under. 

Community leaders will hold a meeting Monday in Morehead to discuss the fate of the Kentucky Folk Arts Center and the Laughlin Health Building project. 

Morehead City Council and the Rowan County Fiscal Court will hold a joint special meeting at 4 p.m. at the Morehead Conference Center with representatives from Morehead State University. 

Rowan Contains without heat will not have access to a warming shelter this week, but that doesn’t mean they will be left out in the cold.

City and county officials teamed up with the Salvation Army in the past to open warming shelters, but are now offering to put those in need up in a local hotel.

Gateway Area Homeless shelter spokesperson Ashley Straka says the option will be open to Rowan County residents through March 1st. 

A Democratic lawmaker will officially file paperwork to run for governor today.

House Minority Leader Rocky Adkins announced his intention to run for Kentucky’s top seat at an event in Morehead back in November. 

Adkins, who has to date raised more than $600-thousand dollars in donations, says he has been pleased with fundraising and statewide support so far.  

Adkins says he plans to campaign on his support of public education and public employees.

The Lady Vikings took down Glasglow in the first round of the Kentucky 2A State Championship in Owensboro Friday afternoon. 

Rowan took the 65-43 victory to move to 14 and 3 on the season.  Coach Matt Stokes says his team sat down with film before the match up so they could figure out exactly how to win...

Rowan will face Scott High in Round two of the tournament Saturday at 2 p.m.  Stokes says his team will spend this evening making a game plan for tomorrow. 

The Rowan County Sheriff says the arrest of the mayor of Morehead was due to a clerical error.

Morehead Mayor Jim Tom Trent was arrested Wednesday for violating a domestic violence order that has been in place against him in Fayette County.

Sheriff Matt Sparks says when he went to make the arrest, he believed there was some mistake.

Trent was released on a $3-thousand dollar cash bond.  No court date has been set in the case. Trent has declined to comment on the incident.

A District Judge was ordered to pay a $25 dollar fine and $130-dollar court costs after charges against him were amended.

Judge Willie Roberts was involved in a March 10th hit-and-run accident on Interstate-64. According to the criminal summons, Roberts is accused of leaving the scene of an accident after rear-ending a woman on the eastbound i-64 off-ramp in Morehead.

When he appeared before a judge on October 24th, Special Prosecutor Ryan Thomas recommended the charges be changed to failure to file an accident report.